If you run away from a thing just because you don't like it, you don't like what you find either.

The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.

...after all, what is a planet but an island in space?

It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here" -- that one's own time and place is beyond cataclysm.

When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.

Knowing makes all the difference... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for

I shall pray God to send charity into this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and unfortunate. I shall ask Him if it is indeed His will that a child should suffer and its soul be damned for a little blemish of the body.